On Tue, Feb 3, 2009 at 10:09 AM, Dagobert Michelsen <d...@baltic-online.de> wrote: > Hi Jason, > > Am 03.02.2009 um 17:03 schrieb Jason King: >> I'm curious if anyone has experiences with tools that will all you to >> store (and later view) historic performance data. Right now sar seems >> to be it. I was thinking about throwing together some scripts using >> kstat + rrdtool, but wanted to see if anyone's found anything better, >> or if this might be an opportunity for OpenSolaris to set itself apart >> (in this area). > > You can of course use the ancient, but working SE Toolkit together > with the orcallator.
The successor to SE Toolkit can be found at... http://www.xetoolkit.com/XE_Toolkit/Home/Home.html According to Adrian Cockroft, there is something called Orcalator that uses data accessible through the SE Toolkit that works nicely with Orca. I haven't tried this myself. Adrian typically gives talks and/or workshops at the CMG conference. If you can dig up the proceedings of one of those you should be able to get a good summary of the variety of tools out there and the relative benefits of each. FWIW, I wrote a home-grown thingy a while back that collects vmstat, iostat, mpstat, etc. data along with various data available through kstat. The numbers are streamed to a central server that dumps it into text archives (retained for a couple months) and rrd files (up to three years). The use of standard commands (e.g. vmstat) makes it so that various support organizations will look at and understand the archived text data. I use kstat (via the perl module) where there isn't a standard command to gather. This includes data that you would think would be reliably available through netstat (e.g. packet & data counters) and more recently data related to memory caps and ZFS arc size. To get at CPU usage of zones (or projects...) I used extended accounting with forced interval records. If you search Adrian's blog (perfcap.blogspot.com) you will get a good idea of what I am doing there. I wish I could open source it because it could use some community love, but that doesn't seem to be possible in the near term. -- Mike Gerdts http://mgerdts.blogspot.com/ _______________________________________________ perf-discuss mailing list perf-discuss@opensolaris.org
